Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2011-04-20
Computer Science
Information Theory
Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication
Scientific paper
In a generic switching problem, a switching pattern consists of a one-to-one mapping from a set of inputs to a set of outputs (i.e., a permutation). We propose and investigate a wireless switching framework in which a multi-antenna relay is responsible for switching traffic among a set of $N$ stations. We refer to such a relay as a MIMO switch. With beamforming and linear detection, the MIMO switch controls which stations are connected to which stations. Each beamforming matrix realizes a permutation pattern among the stations. We refer to the corresponding permutation matrix as a switch matrix. By scheduling a set of different switch matrices, full connectivity among the stations can be established. In this paper, we focus on "fair switching" in which equal amounts of traffic are to be delivered for all $N(N-1)$ ordered pairs of stations. In particular, we investigate how the system throughput can be maximized. In general, for large $N$ the number of possible switch matrices (i.e., permutations) is huge, making the scheduling problem combinatorially challenging. We show that for N=4 and 5, only a subset of $N-1$ switch matrices need to be considered in the scheduling problem to achieve good throughput. We conjecture that this will be the case for large $N$ as well. This conjecture, if valid, implies that for practical purposes, fair-switching scheduling is not an intractable problem.
Liew Soung Chang
Wang Fanggang
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